Earlier this week, Slate published an article by Evgeny Morozov with what is probably our least favorite title ever: "Down With Lifehacking." We considered writing a straight up rebuttal, but then it occurred to us that you might have just as much to say on the subject as we do. Welcome to a very special edition of Flame Wars.

From the article:

As “lifehacking” becomes an industry with its own blogs and book-length guides, a good chunk of the freed-up time often goes to fix, upgrade, or replace the very tools and programs that make lifehacking possible. Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time—so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?

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We highly recommend giving the full article a read—it's really short—then coming back here and sharing your thoughts with us. We'll do a full write-up of your best opinions (and some of our own) next week.

What We're Looking For

Our previous flame wars pitted reader against reader in arguing meaningful issues of the day, like "is OSX or Window the better OS" and "do beans belong in chili." This time, we're firing up the furnaces to help solve a much more important question: Why (and how) do you hack life effectively? How do you ensure life hacking isn't a waste of time and actually makes your life better?

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We hope to generate some fun discussions and show how life hacking really can be valuable. So grab your flame-retardant suit and jump right into the discussions below. Most of all: have fun! Just keep in mind that we're using the term "flame war" a little tongue-in-cheek: we'll actually be looking for the polite, well-reasoned, and well-articulated arguments to feature in our follow-up.